Dr. Brody, an assistant professor and associate director at the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing at the NYU College of Nursing is one of just 12 nursing educators from across the country to win a prestigious grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Nurse Faculty Scholars program this year. He will be studying community-based dementia care.

Dr. Bowen, an assistant professor at Rutgers University School of Nursing, is one of just 12 nursing educators from across the country to win a prestigious grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Nurse Faculty Scholars program this year. She will be studying pediatric asthma.

Dr. Batchelor-Aselage, an assistant professor at Duke University School of Nursing, is one of just 12 nursing educators from across the country to win a prestigious grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Nurse Faculty Scholars program this year. She will be studying alleviation of mealtime difficulties for persons with dementia in nursing homes.

Taura Barr, 2012 Scholar and Assistant Professor at West Virginia University School of Nursing, wins Innovation Award, which honored contributions to innovation and impact on society through commercialization of ideas.

American Nurses Foundation launched e-tools, interactive website to aid nurses in providing PTSD care to veterans; Nancy Hanrahan, RWJF NFS alum and Associate Professor at UPenn's School of Nursing, led the project at the university. The PTSD toolkit was highlighted in a White House fact sheet as an innovative way to address veterans' mental health.

“There’s an overabundance of evidence that shows hospitals that have better staffing have better outcomes when we look at things like mortality,” said Matthew McHugh, an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing whose research has been published in some of the nation’s most prestigious medical journals.

Infection Control Today quotes Jason Farley, PhD, MPH, CRNP, on the growing need to train nurses to provide HIV care. An RWJF Nurse Faculty Scholar, Farley developed anew HIV curriculum for the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, where he is an associate professor.